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Congratulations from NRW for the Westphalian President Kurschus

2021-11-10T14:32:14.239Z


Thorsten Latzel, President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, congratulated his Westphalian counterpart, Annette Kurschus, on being elected President of the Council. Kurschus was elected on Wednesday at the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) in Bremen.


Thorsten Latzel, President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, congratulated his Westphalian counterpart, Annette Kurschus, on being elected President of the Council.

Kurschus was elected on Wednesday at the Synod of the Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) in Bremen.

Düsseldorf / Bremen - "With you, the EKD has elected a clever theologian, a sensitive pastor and a far-sighted church politician as its chairman," says Latzel, according to the announcement.

This is a great benefit for the Evangelical Church in Germany as a whole, as well as for the Rhenish-Westphalian regional churches.

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SPD opposition leader Thomas Kutschaty has congratulated CDU State Transport Minister Hendrik Wüst on being nominated as Armin Laschet's successor in the office of Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) also congratulated.

"It is not only a great honor for the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, but also for the whole of North Rhine-Westphalia that Annette Kurschus is a figure at the top of the Evangelical Church whose path of faith and life is so closely linked to our state", it says in a message from the State Chancellery.

dpa

Source: merkur

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